Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-06
AFARMER's GHAsrLY FIND.

In a Lonely Spot He Discovers the
 Body of a M ardered Man Chopped to
 Pieces.
 GLOUCESTER, Mass, Jan. 5.-Mr. Brooks, Lincoln farmer, while riding toward Lex ington this morning discovered in the snow two rods beyond the stone wall at the side of the road the detached head of 8 man. it's hair matted with blood. It had apparently been chopped off with dull axe The fea- lures were contracted as if the man had suf- fered agony. Just above and behind the left ear were several deep gashes two or three inches long. The hair was short, thick and brown, the forehead low, the nose small and the complexion medium. A few feet away lay bare arm, small but muscular, severed st the shoulder. The hand appeared to be that of a blacksmith. Jumping into his pung MT. Brooks drove rapidly to Lexing- ton and notified the authorities of his dis covery, which confirms the suspicion aroused by the finding of bloody clothing ill Lexing- ton yesterday that horrible murder has been committed in the vicinity. On receipt of the information Globe reporter and two other men visited the scene. They found near the arm blood -besmeared piece of the Evening Record of December 2S, which corresponded in date and appearance to bloody piece of the same paper which was picked up yesterday near the bundle of clothing. The latter was so besmeared as to indicate its being used as 8 towel by the murderer. A large rubber horse cover had been thrown from'the road for the purpose of concealing the remains, but it failed of it's purpose by landing upon the intervening bushes. There was pool of blood in the middle of the road. The party followed the road for over a mile into 8 densely wooded hill. On the left of this in deep gully a naked headlsss body was found. Deep cuts in the hip and foreieg indicated the intention of the murderers in severing the left limb as they had the right, which had been rudely chopped off at the thigh. One arm also was missing from the body and pre- sumably was that found with the head down the road. Dr. J. O. Hilton, who led the party, gave immediate instructions that none should touch the remains approach too near the place to destroy such traces of the perpetrators of the crime as might exist. A time table of the railroad between Somerville and Boston was found in the murdered mans pocket; also ticket to Somerville. This leads the police to surnise that the man may have belonged in Cambridge, SomerYille CT Boston. The left leg of the body i still missing. The place where the body was found is @ very lonely one. The man might have been murdered, chopped to pieces and thrown out of wagon without danger of ob- servation.
 A young man named Nowlan called upon the Somerville police this evening and ex- pressed his belief that the murdered man was his employer, George A. Goldman, milkman of Somerville. Nowlan says Cod man drove away yesterday morning in sleigh with young man whom he addressed as "Frank" and who was stranger Cod man had collected all the money he could and told Now1an he did not know when he should return. Oodman's clothes as described by Nowlan correspond with those found with the body, especially the mittens which had been mended with bed-ticking. The police are confident this clue will lead to a solution of the mystery.
 A dispatch from Lexington states that the body has been fully identified as that of George A. Goldman, the Somerville milkman. There is no clue as yet to the murderer. The money which Goldman started with, about $250, is gone.